Where Are We Now? by Giorgio Agamben, Valeria Dani - 9781538157602

Where Are We Now?The Epidemic as Politics\nAuthor(s): Giorgio Agamben, Valeria Dani\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781538157602, 978-1538157602\nSynopsis\nRenowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben presents his fierce, passionate, and deeply personal commentaries regarding the 2020 health emergency as it played out in Italy and across the world.\n\nAlongside and beyond accusations, these texts reflect upon the great transformation affecting Western democracies. In the name of biosecurity and health, the model of bourgeois democracytogether with its rights, institutions, and constitutionsis surrendering everywhere to a new despotism where citizens accept unprecedented limitations to their freedoms.\n\nThe push to accept this new normal leads to the urgency of the volumes title: Where Are We Now? For how long will we accept living in a constantly extended state of exception, the end of which remain?